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en-usWed, 25 Feb 2015 14:35:07 GMTFocus Forum15In Wisconsin, This is Labor&#x92;s Last Gasphttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3261371/posts
When I talked to a top Wisconsin legislative leader a few months ago, he was worried about the protests that might erupt at the state capitol if the legislature took up right-to-work legislation. It was likely an aftershock from 2011, when public-employee unions besieged the statehouse, occupying it for weeks on end. &#x93;And 30,000 teachers looks a lot different than 30,000 Teamsters,&#x94; he told me. On Tuesday, the legislature took its first steps toward making Wisconsin right-to-work, holding hearings on a bill that would bar labor agreements requiring union fees. The bill was announced late last week, and the legislature...National Reviewhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3261371/posts#commentWed, 25 Feb 2015 14:35:07 GMTBiggest Labor Union Throws Support Behind &#x22;Independent&#x22; Greg Orman ( Kansas )http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216757/posts
This week the AFL-CIO threw its considerable weight behind Democrat-turned-independent Greg Orman in his bid for U.S. Senate in Kansas. This came on the heels of a debate that was all about defining who Greg Orman really is: ... The AFL-CIO won&#x27;t run TV ads for Orman, spokesman Jeff Hauser said, but his campaign will now be incorporated into the union&#x27;s extensive ground game there. The AFL-CIO had previously endorsed Kansas&#x27;s Democratic Party&#x27;s gubernatorial nominee, Paul Davis, who is locked into one of the country&#x27;s most competitive gubernatorial contests with incumbent Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. During Wednesday&#x27;s debate, incumbent Sen....Townhall.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216757/posts#commentSat, 18 Oct 2014 13:44:21 GMTEdn Run: UAW decides to skip election and form union at VW anywayhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3179391/posts
I just returned from another trip to Tennessee where I was able to catch up with a few folks from the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga and see how things were developing. The conversations there had shifted quite a bit from earlier in the year when the vote regarding UAW unionization was raging, and recent reports make it clear that the big auto union isn&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;t going to be content with licking their wounds from their recent loss. As Ed reported back in April, the UAW had withdrawn their request for a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board, which some...Hotairhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3179391/posts#commentSat, 12 Jul 2014 17:11:22 GMTLabor supporting Media Matters not super-keen on SEIU unionizing its employeeshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3145900/posts
One for the hypocrisy hall of fame: Media Matters for America is apparently resisting an effort by Service Employees International Union Local 500 to unionize its staff.Last week, the union filed a representation petition with the National Labor Relations Board, indicating that the nonprofit media watchdog organization rejected an effort by the union to organize MMFA&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s staff through a Card Check election.A filing with the NLRB does not necessarily mean that the union and management are in direct confrontation. For example, although Volkswagen tacitly backed the United Auto Workers&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99; recent effort to organize its Chattanooga, Tenn., plant, the company still...Hotairhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3145900/posts#commentFri, 18 Apr 2014 13:44:36 GMTLabor Fascism in Chattanooga: UAW refuses to take the Volkswagen workers&#x27; &#x22;no&#x22; for an answer.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3145891/posts
As the labor movement tells the story, two months ago, the silly, ungrateful Volkswagen factory workers in Tennessee foolishly rejected the generous invitation of the company and the United Auto Workers to welcome the Detroit-killing union with open arms. In an election supervised by the federal National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the workers in VW&#x27;s Chattanooga plant rejected UAW representation by a vote of 712 to 626. Amazingly, the UAW and the automaker both refuse to take the workers&#x27; &#x22;no&#x22; for an answer. The two sides are acting in unison to overturn the democratically expressed will of the workers. Nullifying...American Thinkerhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3145891/posts#commentFri, 18 Apr 2014 13:28:48 GMTThe IRS of Labor: Obama&#x92;s cabinet may be giving increased scrutiny to non-union factorieshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3142469/posts
Alabama representative Martha Roby, a Republican from Montgomery, is concerned that the U.S. Department of Labor is targeting Southern vehicle and auto-parts manufacturers because of their failure to unionize. Automotive manufacturers in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi are all now subject to in-depth inspections, part of an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regional emphasis program that went into effect on January 15. This increased scrutiny comes a year after the agency also issued a rule clarification in response to a question from organized labor, newly allowing union staffers to accompany OSHA officials on inspections to non-union sites. &#x93;I find the...National Reviewhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3142469/posts#commentWed, 9 Apr 2014 14:12:03 GMTFirefighters Refuse to Help Man, He Dies
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77-year-old collapsed across street from DC firehouse (Newser) &#xE2;&#x80;&#x93; Marie Mills&#x27; father collapsed Saturday afternoon in a shopping center parking lot across the street from a Washington, DC, firehouse&#xE2;&#x80;&#x94;but firefighters didn&#x27;t rush to his aid, despite repeated pleas for help, and Medric &#x22;Cecil&#x22; Mills, 77, died of a heart attack. Marie Mills tells WTTG that bystanders were &#x22;screaming and hollering&#x22; at a firefighter across the street, and three people even ran over to Engine 26, but they were told rescuers could not respond until 911 was called, the Washington Post reports. Sources say that when 911 was called, an...Newserhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3117491/posts#commentThu, 30 Jan 2014 18:40:58 GMTBoeing machinists approve contract securing 777X jethttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3108295/posts
SEATTLE/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Boeing&#x27;s machinists on Friday narrowly approved a crucial labor contract that secured thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of economic activity for Washington state but will cost workers their pensions. The vote of 51 percent to 49 percent to accept the deal means Boeing Co will build its new 777X jetliner and wings in the Seattle area, where Boeing has built aircraft for more than 90 years. Had the workers rejected the offer, Boeing would have considered making the successor to its popular 777 widebody jet elsewhere, and had received offers from 22 states interested...Chicago Tribunehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3108295/posts#commentSat, 4 Jan 2014 17:43:20 GMT&#x91;Out of touch&#x92; unionized public employees strike over 14.5 percent raisehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3093193/posts
Taxpayers in Will County have offered its public employees a hefty pay raise and are willing to pick up 90 percent of the cost for their health insurance, but that&#x92;s not good enough for members of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Local 1028. The labor stats show 35 percent of government workers are in a union, compared to just 6 percent of private-sector workers. The same report shows that unionized public sector employees are paid 27 percent more than private-sector workers. &#x93;County employees pay one percent of their salaries for single coverage and two percent for...Illinois Watchdoghttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3093193/posts#commentTue, 19 Nov 2013 20:50:46 GMTBoeing Bombshell: Machinists Union Bosses Negotiated Secretly Behind Local Members&#x92; Backshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3092576/posts
With the news last week that Machinists&#x92; union members employed by Boeing in Puget Sound overwhelmingly rejected a proposed contract that would have meant years worth of work on the new Boeing 777X, much of the attention was focused on what it would mean for union members&#x92; future and where the work would go following their rejection. As the long-term contract they voted down had numerous concessions, it is understandable that it would have been a hard sell to get the members to accept it. Yet, that hard sell by local union leaders did not take place. In fact, the...RedStatehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3092576/posts#commentMon, 18 Nov 2013 10:52:15 GMTLabor big a real heavy sleeperhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3024555/posts
&#x22;IT&#x27;S A DREAM JOB: Mark Rosenthal, who pulls in $156,000 a year as head of Local 983 of District Council 37, nods off at his desk during one of a series of postlunch naps that have outraged members of the union&#x92;s executive board. &#x93;He eats lunch when he arrives at work at 2 p.m. Then, like clockwork, he goes to sleep with a cup of soda on the table and the straw in it,&#x94; said Marvin Robbins, a union vice president. &#x93;Then he wakes up, looks at his watch and says, &#x91;I have to get out before the traffic gets...nypost.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3024555/posts#commentTue, 28 May 2013 13:46:29 GMTThe Public Sector Union War on Democracyhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2994099/posts
&#x95;Unions have changed their historic approach to immigrants and immigration. Up through the 1970s, unions were openly hostile to immigrants. But now unions are treating the 11 million undocumented workers as potential union members and recruiting them. &#x95;An agreement between the Department of Homeland Security and the Labor Department actually requires this &#x97; if a union and an employer are engaged in a dispute over organizing workers, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency is barred from pursuing an immigration investigation of the workplace under this agreementUnionwatchhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2994099/posts#commentWed, 6 Mar 2013 17:48:48 GMTHostess Plans to Liquidate After Mediation Failshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2961658/posts
Hostess Brands Inc. said Tuesday night that mediation talks with its bakers union failed and the company will proceed with plans to close down and sell its assets.Wall Street Journalhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2961658/posts#commentWed, 21 Nov 2012 00:46:44 GMTThe Parasite That Kills Its Hostesshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2961099/posts
The news about the bankruptcy of Hostess, maker of the Twinkie and other legendary junk foods, touched off some memories of growing up in a mid-sized Midwestern town in the 1970s and &#x27;80s. No, not that kind of memory, though come to think of it, the 1980s was the last time I actually ate a Hostess snack. What I&#x27;m recalling has a lot less nostalgic charm: the whole phenomenon of a kamikaze labor union that keeps demanding more for workers--who end up getting nothing when their employer goes belly-up. That&#x27;s pretty much what the unions did, or tried to do,...RCMhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2961099/posts#commentMon, 19 Nov 2012 14:52:23 GMTAFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: This Whole Fiscal Cliff Thing Is Manufacturedhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2959867/posts
During a speech today in Washington D.C., AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka called the looming debt disaster a &#x22;manufactured crisis&#x22; and said &#x22;there isn&#x27;t a fiscal cliff.&#x22; &#x22;There is no fiscal cliff,&#x22; Trumka says in prepared remarks to the National Mediation Board Conference in Washington on Thursday. &#x22;What we&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;re facing is an obstacle course within a manufactured crisis that was hastily thrown together in response to inflated rhetoric about our federal deficit.&#x22; Obama met with Trumka earlier this week, in addition to other far left leaders, to discuss economic policy. Apparently a $3500 tax increase on every family doesn&#x27;t serve as...Townhallhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2959867/posts#commentThu, 15 Nov 2012 16:45:27 GMTPublic Pension Stimulus Nonsense (Each $ of pension benefits produces $2.37 in economic output?)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2879391/posts
Breaking windows will stimulate the economy, according to a leading public pension advocacy group. Skeptical? The National Institute on Retirement Security (NIRS) has not literally endorsed breaking windows, but a report recently published by the organization relies on the same economic fallacy. According to NIRS-whose membership consists principally of public employee unions, the pension plans in which they participate, and the actuarial and investment firms that serve them-the best economic stimulus is not tax cuts or unemployment checks, but increased pension benefits to public-sector retirees. Each dollar of pension benefits produces $2.37 in economic output, NIRS says, creating millions of...RCMhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2879391/posts#commentThu, 3 May 2012 13:27:49 GMTOhio voters support right-to-work legislation by 14 in new Q-pollhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2846367/posts
Conventional wisdom has Ohio being vulnerable to a Democratic rollback in 2012 after a GOP sweep in 2010. Approval ratings for Governor John Kasich have been low after his reforms of public-employee unions in a state where Big Labor is thought to have a wide reach. However, a new Quinnipiac poll on a proposed right-to-work reform may indicate that their power is not as broad as first thought: Despite the overwhelming victory by organized labor and its allies in repealing SB 5 in this past election, by 54 &#xE2;&#x80;&#x93; 40 percent Ohio voters favor the idea of passing a &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;right-to-work&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D;...Hotairhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2846367/posts#commentTue, 14 Feb 2012 17:08:57 GMT&#x91;Occupy CPAC&#x92; protesters paid $60 for the dayhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2845020/posts
Protesters at Friday&#x92;s &#x93;Occupy CPAC&#x94; event, organized by AFL-CIO and the Occupy DC movement, told The Daily Caller that they were paid &#x93;sixty bucks a head&#x94; to protest outside the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. One protester told TheDC that all the &#x93;Occupy&#x94; activists were being paid to protest, and that his union, Sheet Metal Workers Local 100, approached him about the money-making opportunity. &#x93;I have nothing nice to say about Local 100. &#x85; They just told me &#x91;you wanna make sixty bucks? So c&#x92;mon,&#x92;&#x94; the protester said. Other &#x93;Occupy CPAC&#x94; protesters were unwilling to speak on camera...The Daily Callerhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2845020/posts#commentFri, 10 Feb 2012 19:52:21 GMTSEIU job posting in Washington State (vanity)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2831746/posts
SEIU Healthcare 775NW is hiring a Lead internal organizer to lead a team of eight organizers who are focused on leadership development, the &#x93;Leaders In Action&#x94; field team, working with public and private sector home care workers. This team develops leaders and builds networks to take action in a variety of campaigns.SEIU.orghttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2831746/posts#commentThu, 12 Jan 2012 01:17:19 GMTNebraska 17, Penn State 14; Crowd Chants &#x22;We love JoePa.&#x22;http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2806574/posts
A last-ditch drive ends in disappointment for Penn State, which loses to Nebraska, 17-14. Not having any timeouts crippled the offense, which completed two passes short of a first down, including one with seconds left, but couldn&#x27;t stop the clock. This is a different Saturday in State College. Immediately after McGloin&#x27;s final pass fell incomplete, the Penn State crowd cheered the team&#x27;s effort: the cheering grew to a roar as the two teams again met a midfield, such as they did right before the game. Again, as occurred several times during the game, there were chants of &#x22;We love JoePa.&#x22;...The New York Timeshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2806574/posts#commentSat, 12 Nov 2011 21:07:35 GMTPPP Poll: SB 5 headed for big defeat (Kasich&#x27;s Collective Bargaining Bill might not pass)
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Labor is poised for a big victory in Ohio Tuesday. PPP&#x27;s final poll on Issue 2 finds 59% of voters plan to reject Senate Bill 5, with only 36% voting for approval. What might be most remarkable about the 23 point margin in this poll is that it&#x27;s exactly identical to what we found the first time we polled on this issue all the way back in March. Voters were furious then and that anger has continued all the way to November. Democrats are almost unanimous in their opposition to SB 5, supporting repeal by an 86-10 margin. Meanwhile there&#x27;s...Public Policy Pollinghttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2803788/posts#commentMon, 7 Nov 2011 19:07:54 GMTHouse voting on bill to neuter National Labor Relations Board (Will Obama Sign it?)
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In response to a series of controversial decisions by the National Labor Relations Board, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill curtailing the power of the NLRB Thursday afternoon. The Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act, H.R. 2587 is currently being voted on and is expected to pass the Republican-controlled House. An earlier vote on the bill on the floor passed 239-176, with all Republicans and six Democrats voting in favor. The bill would prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from ordering any employer to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any circumstance. The NLRB has been the...Daily Callerhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2778885/posts#commentThu, 15 Sep 2011 17:12:32 GMTBREAKING: Dane County judge strikes down Wisconsin collective bargaining law
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Madison - A Dane County judge has struck down Gov. Scott Walker&#x27;s legislation repealing most collective bargaining for public employees. In a 33-page decision issued Thursday, Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi said she would freeze the legislation because GOP lawmakers on a committee broke the state&#x27;s open meetings law in passing it March 9. The legislation limits collective bargaining to wages for all public employees in Wisconsin except for police and firefighters. &#x22;It&#x27;s what we were looking for,&#x22; said Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, a Democrat. Ozanne sued to block the law after Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca...Milwaukee Journal Sentinelhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2725425/posts#commentThu, 26 May 2011 16:03:01 GMTTennessee to vote tomorrow on Wisconsin-like labor legislation
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The Tennessee state legislature tomorrow will vote on a bill that would limit collective bargaining for teachers&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99; unions &#xE2;&#x80;&#x94; the only government unions allowed in the state of Tennessee.The bill echoes the legislation the Wisconsin legislature passed earlier this year in the face of union protests and the flight of 14 Wisconsin state senators. Around that time, union protesters marched in Tennessee, too &#xE2;&#x80;&#x94; but, in recent weeks, Tennessee&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s version of a bargain-limiting bill has moved forward to relatively little national fanfare, even though both Tennessee Education Association activists and Tea Party supporters have continued to express strong views on...Hotairhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2721747/posts#commentWed, 18 May 2011 20:47:05 GMTThe Persecution of Boeing. The NLRB&#x27;s claims are laughable on their face.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2719339/posts
H. L. Mencken defined puritanism as the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy. The National Labor Relations Board is haunted by the fear that a company somewhere might be creating jobs with a nonunionized work force. Boeing has run afoul of that fear by investing more than $1 billion in a new plant in the right-to-work state of South Carolina. With only the flimsiest legal justification, the board wants to force Boeing to reverse course and locate the facility with its current operations in Washington State, where its workers are unionized. The NLRB&#x92;s claims are laughable on their...National Reviewhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2719339/posts#commentFri, 13 May 2011 14:14:21 GMT